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Escape the Internet
DocLab

Escape the Internet

Lucas Rizzotto
Brazil, United States
2026
110 min
World Premiere
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Synopsis

The AI apocalypse has begun, bringing with it a deadly form of brain rot. And the only cure is… human connection! Work together with all your fellow audience members to save the internet, but beware: there’s an algorithmic demon hiding among you.

Everyone in the audience creates their own character on their phone, which then appears on the cinema screen. Guided by a game host, you collectively explore a mysterious island where you play a whole range of separate games: shooting arrows like Cupid, taking part in musical interludes, and making life-or-death decisions in a real-life trolley problem.

Escape the Internet is a hilarious, chaotic and unifying video game on the big screen; a love letter to video games in which you learn more about the people sitting next to you. After this unique collective experience, you will know your fellow players a bit better and have kept the brain rot at bay—for a little while, at least.

 

Escape The Internet is presented by BXRF in partnership with IDFA DocLab

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Credits
110 min
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Created by
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Key collaborator
    Pete Cybriwsky
    Pete Cybriwsky
Production
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Executive producer
    Alex Hirsch
    Alex Hirsch
Cinematography
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Animation
    Vossadova,
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Vossadova,
    Lucas Rizzotto
Editing
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Sound
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Sound Design
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Screenplay
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Narration
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Narrator
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
World Sales
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Screening copy
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Lucas Rizzotto
Technical artist
    Jack Wesson,
    James Higgins,
    Jared Lupien,
    Sarah Schreck,
    Lucas Rizzotto
    Jack Wesson,
    James Higgins,
    Jared Lupien,
    Sarah Schreck,
    Lucas Rizzotto
Developer
    Lucas Rizzotto,
    Pete Cybriwsky,
    Fray Webber
    Lucas Rizzotto,
    Pete Cybriwsky,
    Fray Webber

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